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Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-03-24

ONE of the new steam heated passen-
ger trains came in on the Fargo e. South
ern, Saturday night. 1t was not stated
how the apparatus worked.
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DAILY except MONDAY) & WEEKLY
T e r M s.

The friends of u. s. Marshall Marratta
will sympathize with him in the death of
his wife at Minneapolis.
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WI Smith, an old Jamestown boy
now in charge of the elevator at Sykes
ton, was in the city yesterday.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-03-24

City Clerk Blewett gives official notice
of an election-mayo r, police magistrate
and four alderman, April 2nd next.
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RECEPTION AND DANCE.
If ever the Opera rink was crowded
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List OF Letters

Remaining uncalled for in the jamestown,
d. T., postotfice, for the week ending
March q. 1887: ~
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PRELIMINARY WORK.

According to the official program, a
preliminary business meeting for the pur-
pose of temporary organization was to be
held at the courthouse at 3 p. m. and ac-
cordingly few minutes before the ap-
pointed time the reveille was sounded
and the Grand Army men fell into line
in front of the Gladstone. Thence they
marched down Fifth avenue. to the court
house, headed by the two bands.
After the veterans had been seated
Department Commander W. V. Lucas of
Chamberlain, took the chair, and calling
the assembly to order, said:
Comrades of the G.. A. r: This is the
opening of the 4th annual encumpment
of the Dakota Department of the Grand
Army of the Republic. We will first
have music by the band.
After a medley of patriotic songs by
the Valley City band, Chaplain Hartman
of the VIM. H. Seward Post, jamestown,
invoked with his usual eloquence, the
divine blessing on the encampment and
it's work.
The roster of the territorial officers
post commanders and delegates was then
called.
Commander Lucas announced the
committee on credentials as follows: AS
sistant Adjutant General Spaulding,
Comrade G. S. Palmer of Sioux Falls, and
Comrade Selvy of Grand Forks.
The committee left the room and met
Immediately thereafter in room II at the
Gladstone, where the roster was correct
ed and the credentials of the delegates
passed upon.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-03-24
College Opening.

College Opening. .-E
Spring term of the jamestown College
opens March Doth. and closes June 9th.
1887. Address
n NJ GROVE,
jamestown, Oak.
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SONS OF VETERANS.

The business of the session having
been concluded. the commander stated
that they had with them Col. Worden.
commander of the Dakota Sons of Vet
Grams, who would address them on the
objects and aims of the organization.
Col. Worden was then introduced and
talked ably and eloquently upon the Or
ganization, of which he is the head In
| Dakota. and upon the great work which
it proposes to accomplish. The old vet
Grams are fast passing away and there
being no means of recruiting the order
the name will soon be all that is left OF
it. To take its place, do its work. keep
alive the memory and perpetuate the
ceremony of Decoration Day and to foster
and encourage patriotism are the great
objects of the growing and priseworthy
organization. Col. Worden made an elo,
quent appeal and was frequently inter,
rupted by applause.
Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1887-03-24
CONCERNING THE CAMP FIRE.

CAPTAIN Hicks of VIM H. Seward post,
hcreupon arose and stating that there
had been some little disagreement among
the local comrades in regard to the camp
fire, which it was proposed to make what
was called ''buck party" that is for gen
tlemen oily, said that it had been decided
to Law the matter before the delegates,
and to abide by their decision in the mat
ter.
Comrade Cresscy moved that the la
dies be admitted to the camp fire, and
the motion was carried unanimously.
Colonel Miller, Capt. Hicks and Col
Welles, there engaged in a little friendly
tilt as to where the responsibility for the
ordination of the idea of Il ''buck party
rested.
Commander Lucas stated that the bus
mess sessions of the encampment were
held in secret session; that Commander
Wade of this place had arranged for
dOOrkeepers for these meetings; and that
no one would be allowed to enter the
room who could not give the counter
sign. The entertainments in the evening
at the rink, however, are OF pubic char
acter.
Comrade Cressey. of Huron, inquired
as to the railroad arrangements for re-
turning, stating that there were great
many who live quite distant and many
would prefer to reach home Friday, If
possible.
Commander Lucas stated in reply that
the matter was being arranged and
notice would be given. He further SAID
that unless the encampment ordered
otherwise, he would strictly prohibit
smoking during sessions.
This announcement was greeted with
loud cheers.
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. 1EI II
A HISTORY OF ADVENTURE
BY Fl. RIDER HAGGARD.

ticipated, for III these deep hewn caves
there was no material to turn To dust.
About the bodies on the stone shelves and
floor of the tomb were many painted vases,
but / saw very few in any of
the vaults.
Lift the cloth up, oh, Holly" she said,
but though put out my hand To 10 so, l
drew it back again. 1t seemed like sacri
lege, and to speak the truth was awed by
the dread solemnity of the place, and Of
the presences before us. Then with a little
laugh at my fears she drew it herself, only
to discover another and yet finer cloth ~
ing over the forms upon the stone bench.
This also she withdrew, and then for the
first time for thousands upon thousands III
years did living eyes ooh upon the fees
of those chilly dead. 1t was n womap; she
might AVE been thirty-ive years II age,
or perhaps a little less, and had certainly
been beautiful. Even now her galm clear
cut features, marked out with delicate
black eyebrows and long 'eyelashes that
threw little ines of shads''y from the lamp
upon the ivory face, were wonderfully
beautiful. There, rotDsd in white, down
which her blue-black hair was streaming,
she slept her last long sleep; and on her
arm, it's face pressed against her breast,
there lay n lit ie babe. So sweet was the
sight, although so awful, that confess IL
without 5%ame-I could scarcely withhold
my tearf. 1t took one back across the dim
gulf 81 the ages TO some happy home in
deaC, imperial Kor, where this winsome
lazy, girt about with beauty had lived and
Aied, and, dying, taken her last born with
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her to the tomb. There they were, mother
and babe, the white memories Of q forgot
ten human history speaking more eloquent
ly to the heart than could any written re-
cord of their lives. Reverently / replaced
the grave-clothes, and with q sigh that
flowers so fair should, in the purpose Of
the Everlasting, have only bloomed to be
gathered to the grave, l turned to the body
on the opposite Shelf, and gently unveiled
it. 1t was that of a man in advanced life,
with a long grizzled beard, and also robed
in white, probably the husband of the lady,
who, after surviving her many years, came
at last to sleep once more for good and all
beside her.
We left the place and entered others. 1t
would be too long to describe the many
things l saw in them. Each one had it's
occupants, for the five hundred and odd
years that had elapsed between the COM
pletion of the cave and the destruction Of
the race had evidently sufiiced to fill these
catacombs, numberless as they were, and
each appeared to have been undisturbed
since the day that it was laid there. L
could fill a book with the description Of
them, but to do so would only be TO repeat
what / have said with variation.
Hast thou seen enough, my stranger
guest. or shall | show thee more of the
wonders Of these tombs that are my palace
halls? If thou wilt, l can lead thee to
where Tisno, the mightiesta and most valor-
Gus King of Kor, in whose day these caves
were finished, lies in a pomp that seems to
mock that nothingness, and bid the empty
shadows Of the past do homage to his
sculptured vanity"
Il have seen enough, oh queen" l an
swered. "My feeble breast is over
wbelmed by the strength of the present
Death. Mortality is weak, and easily
broken down by a sense Of the companion
ship that waits upon its end. Take me
hence, oh, Ayesha."
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
Beet Sugar,

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26.-Claus Spreckles
began his scheme Of beet sugar making by or.
ganizing a stock company. The whole state
Is watching the Progress OF his venture with
the greatest interest, as 1t means not only
cheap sugar, tut The promise OF another kind
Of profitable crop for tillers OF the soil. Beet
seed has been distributed to farmers through
out the state, and one evaporating plant will
be In operation by next fall. II the outcome
proves satisfactory, sufficient additional ma
chinery will he put up to produce 5000 tons
OF sugar annually. All raw sugar TINS pro-
duced will be refined in this city at spreckle's
refinery, and 1t is believed that beet sugar
will be sufficient TO keep the refinery running
all the year round. This will throw a
large quantity Of Hawaiian raw sugar on the
San Francisco market without facilities for
refining 1t, as the capacity OF the California
refinery owned by Spreckles is about 60,C00
tone, while the product Of the Sandwich
islands is l15,0 600 tons annually. 1t is under
stood that Spreckles is gradually withdrawing
all his Interests from the Hawaiian islands.
His scheme to suppl,nt cane sugar with beet
sugar at the California refinery and run his
steamers direct to Auckland and Sydney
without stopping at Honolulu is part OF his
plan to sever his connection with the king
dom. What sugar he has taken hitherto from
Hawaii will have to go TO New York or else
to a new refinery here. The establishment Il
the latter is not probable, 80 New York may
look forward to soon receiving cargoes Of raw
sugar from Honolulu regularly.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
wba, the Indian Schools are Doing.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-From the annual
report Of John b. Riley, superInterder OF
Indian schools, to the secretary OF The interior,
1t appears that the aggregate expenditure or
the government for the education OF Indian
children during the year was Sl,095,319, OF
which s719, 75} was expended on account OF
government boarding schools, and $685. 99
for the support and education OF pupils at
contract boarding schools, most OF which are
under control of religious denominations, as
the chief items. The whole number OF Inoian
children between the ages OF six and sixteen
years is 80 sci; of this number 1882, or
about 37K per cent, attended school forsome
portion OF the year. A uniform system OF
text books and the study and teachip" OF
English only are recommended. The report
ssys that too much stress cannot be laid
upon the importance Of preparing native
teachers, and TO this end suggests that a
normal school department be established at
8, m. Of the large schools. The superintonc-
emf mlkes the following recC m nendation
That su industrial boarding-school be estab-
Iished rear the Missouri river adjacent to the
Sioux reservation that schaols be provided
for the tribes in Nevada; that a commission
he appointed and empowered to make
thorough examination Of the whole subject OF
Indian education.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
LET US GIVE THANKS,
A Proclamation by the President.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. - The following
proclamation was issued late yesterday by the
president Of the United States:
The goodness and mercy of God which have
followed The American PEOPLE during oil the
days OF the past year claim their grateful rec.
ignition and humble Acknowledgement. Nv
bis cmnipotent power he has protected US
from war and pest'lence, and from every ma
tional calamity; BY his gracious favor the
earth has yielded generous return TO the la.
Dor OF the husbandmap, and every path Of
honest Toll has led 10 comfort and content.
neLt; by his loving kindness the hearts of
our people have been replenished with fra
ternsl sentiment and patriotic endeavor, and
by his unerrtng guidance we have beea di
rected In the way Of national prosperity. To
tie end that we NAV, with one accord, testify
our gratitude for all these blessings, I, Gro.
yer Cleveland, president of the United States,
do hereby designate and set apart THURSDAY,
the 2ftn day OF November, next, AS a day OF
Thanksgiving and pray er, to be observed by
all the people OF the land.
On that day let all secular work and en-
pigment be suspended, AMI let our people
assemble la their accustomed places OF wor-
ship and with prayer and songs OF praise give
thanks to our heavenly father for all that he
has done for US, while we humbly implore the
forgiveness OF our sins and a continuance Of
his mercy.
Let family and kindred be united on that
day, and let their hearts, filed with kindly
cheer snd aifectionate "Reminiscences, be turned
in tnankfulness to the source OF all their
pleasures and the glver OF all that makes the
day glad and joyous. And In the midst Of
our plenty anu our happiness let us remem-
her the poor, the needy and unfortunate, and
by our gifts OF charity and ready benevolence
let us Increase the nunbe OF those who, with
grateful hearts, shall join Ia our thaIksgiv-
ing.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY the President:
T, II. RAYARD. Secretary OF State.
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A Circular by the Postmaster General.

WAsHINGToN, Oct. 27.-Thc postmaster
general is engaged preparing a circular which
is designed to relieve the business community
from the embarrassment, hardship and ex-
pense~ resulting from the rigid enforc ,ment of
the law and uEder which advertisements may
be placed upon wrappers Of third and fourth
class matt II without rendering 1t liable to
first-class postage rates.
''Ihe subject" said Mr.. Bryant, attorney
general for the postoffce department, is a diff
fcult ole. There has been no new law and
no new regulation, but the publication Of the
new revision Of the postal laws and regula.
lions last month has called the officials atten
tion to a law which has fallen into desuetude.
The law Is very strict. The postmaster gener'
ais circular of course, can refer only to meth
eds of Administrations
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
DUBUQUE Boys on a Lark.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25.-Otto NJ. Reute
and Arthur Williams are held IN custody here
on a telegraphic order from their parents.
who live In Duluth. Young Reute is the son
Of a wholesale druggist, and Williams is the
son OF a manufacturer OF farming machinery.
The boys reached here two weeks ago. having
run away from home ard crossed the CONT
nent 10 see the sights. Route tool sl06 from
his father without asking his consent. The
parents want their boys back, and will send
an agent for them. The youngsters are pen
tent, and are not sorry that a telegram to ar
rest them was received.
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Burned 10 Death by the Roadside.

HASTINGS, Neb., Oct. 26.-Yesterday morn
ing about 7 o'clock a German farmer named
Schooke was found burned to death ~slongside
Of the public highway about one mile east
of the city. From what can be learned be
was pretty well under the influence of liquor,
and his clothing caught fire from a spark
from a cigar or pipe, and being chilled and
helpless, he was slowly burned TO death. The
wagon striking a rut in the road threw him
ont, where he lay until found. He was a
horrible sight, his head and face being burned
beyond recognition, while nearly his entire
body was in the same condition. A coroner's
jury was eEpannelled, bit the inquest has
been postponed until tomorrow morning.
schooke leaves an aged mother and six chill.
dren in destitu circumstances, who will
have to be looked after by the county. The
body was buried In the potter's field this
afternoon.
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adieu, but she would not.
"Nay," she said, center with me, oh,
Holly, for of a truth thy conversation
pleaseth me. Think, oh, Holly; for two
thousand years have / had non to con
verse with save slaves and my w
thoughts; and though OF all this thinking
hath much wisdom come, and many Sc
crets been made plain, yet am / weary OF
my thoughts, and hath come to loathe
mine own society, for surely the food that
gives TO eat is bitter to the taste,
and il is only with the teeth of hope that
we can bear to bite it. Now though thy
| thoughts are green and tender, as becometh
one so young, yet are they those of a think
| ing brain. and in truth thou dost bring
back to my mind certain of those old phil
osophers with whom in days by gone ]
hove disputed at Athens and in Arabia,
for thou hast the same grabbed air and
dusty look, as though thou hadst passed
thy days in reading ill-writ Greek, and
been stained dark with the CRIME of man.
uscripts. SO draw the curtain, and sit
here by my side, and we will eat fruit, and
talk of pleasant things. See, / will again
unveil to thee. Thou hast brought it on
myself, oh, Holly; fairly have | warned
thee. and thou shalt call me beautiful, as
even those old philosophers were wont &c
do. Fie upon them, forgetting their phil
osophy!"
And without more ado she stood up and
shook the white wrappings from her, and
came forth shining and splendid like some
ghttering snake when she has cast her
slough; ay, and fixed her wonderful eyes
upon me2more deadly than any basilisk's
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r. BAYARD, Secretary OF State.
A FURIOUS GALE.
GROVER CLEVELAND.

Several Vessels Wrecked During Sun
days Storm and the Crews Narrowly
Escape Death From Exhaustion Heavy
Fall of Snow in the Black Hills.
MARQUETTE, Mich, Oct. pa storm al
most exactly parallel in intensity and direc-
ton of wind and amount OF snowfall as that
which caused such havoc here November II,
last year, set III at daylight Sunday. 1t blew
rom the northeast and north forty.hye miles
an hour all day, while a binding snow storm
ragged, making the gale dOubly dangerous for
vessels. Tonight two disasters are known
and more are feared. The captain and crew
OK the steamer George Sherman have just got
into to the city and report the Sherman a
total wreck on Shot Point, about zen miles
from Marquette. No lives lost. The Alva
Bradley struck at about the same place a lit
tie before the Sherman, aud Capt. Clifford
thinks her crew also escaped. The Sherman
left the $40 at a. IN. Saturday, and was
struck by the storm this side OF White Fish
Point, it commencing To snow at z O'Clock
this morning. She got along finely with the
Bradley In company until this afternoon,
WNen the Vessels sCpdIdlcb, anu bOOu
the captain OF the Sherman found that in the
thick snow storm she was ashore. He at
tempted 10 come about TO clear Shot point,
but was driven hard on a rocky beach. Seeing
that the schooner was lost, the crew took to
the boat. While going ashore the main mast
fell across the boat without i~piuring any once
though when shore was reached tAe captsA
was dashed against the rocks and tldiy
stunned. He was pulled ashore by th"Gthers,
who were all saved. Their names s,t:
n. Clifford, captain; George &drtis, first
mate; f. s. Lawson, Frav& Handy, Sam
West, Dave sesrles, seame.s,' Mrs. Kitty Cole,
cook. =
They struck the beGth at $50 p. IN, and
kept wandering sound in the woods until 6
O'Clock In a b~lisIing snow, almost dead from
exhaustion, dragging the woman on a litter,
when the" struck a railroad track and tagged
an o~rs,Irain )uDd for Marquette. The Sher.
mss was loaded with coal for Pickands & Co.,
Marquette. The vessel is doubtless q total
wreck. The Alva Bradley, coal-laden, was
consigned to the railroad company here, and
went ashore before the Sherman. Capt. Gif-
ford said she is on head FIRST and apparently
easy, and thinks the crew got of, as IT was
only a few rods 10 shore, and he saw nothing
OF the crew and could not stop TO hunt for
them, because OF the condition Of bis own
men.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05

CHICAGO, Oct. ga specIu from Tale.
quah, /. T., says the killing O. B. II. Stone,
editor Of the Telephone, =; Col. Boudirot,
editor OF the Advocate Yesterday, 1t is feared,
will result this week "a civil war In the Chero-
kee nation. Tbs tragedy is claimed to
be the climax to the most bitter
political fgh' that has ever taken place in the
territory. sld the indications are that the
trouble yill result in the severance of tribal
relations, and that the territory will be thrown
oTan TO settlers. For several weeks the Tele-
Shonc has been making attacks on Boudinot
aud yesterdays issue was unusually severe.
Bou0inot called on Stone and asked for a re.
traction, which was refused. Boudinot then
drew a revolver and shot Stone dead. stones
friends are determined on vengeance md
Boudinot's friends are guarding him. AS
there is no court Of adjudication except the
shot gun, the indications are that the near
future will witness an alarming mortality
among the Cherokees.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
Cholera on a Steamer.

New YORK, Oct. 25.-Cholera has broken
ont on the steamship Britannia, which has for
some time been detained at the lower quaran-
tine. Toe record thus far Is one death and
aud new case. Alesia's passengers, who have
been in the Swinburne hospital, are entirely
recovered and tomorrow will be removed to
Hoffman's Island TO Join the Alesia's detaiued
passengers. The Brittania is carefully
Guarded.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
Which Mother?

The Saratogian says: ''The home is
the hope of America, and the mother
is the hope OF the home" We have
long suspected it; but there comes a
voice from Salt Lake City, and cries
out in a great state Of doubt, (which
motherp"-NeW York Graphic.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
Boiler Explosion.

C~IScISNATI, Oct. IA Times-Star Iron.
on special says: At s o'clock this morning
a battery of s'x boilers in the Lawrence Iron
works exploded, killing Thomas and Mike
Dryer and two others, and %woundiDg twelve
persons. Portions e the boilers were blown
half a mile away.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
Chamberlain Will Come.

LONDON, Oct. 25.-The foreign office has
issued a circular announcing that Chamberlain
will depart for Washington early in Novem.
Der, and will be accompanied by Mr.. Bergne,
superintendent Of the treaty department, and
Mr.. Msycock, another attatche Of the foreign
office
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
CHAPTER xvII.-THE BALANCE TURNS

N a few minutes, follow
ing the lamps Of the mutes,
that, held out from the
body as a bearer holds wat
er in a vessel. had the ap-
pearance OF floating down
the darkness by themselves
we came to a stair which
led us to She's anteroom,
the same that Billali had
crept up upon all tours on
the previous day. Here l
would have bid the queen